Only
in the Peoples Republic of California! The
state legislature and the state office
of environmental health assessment there
are giving cover to the big drug companies,
protecting them from upcoming lawsuits
due to the side effects of their synthetic
hormones. Let me explain the legal
/ political posturing first then I'll
explain what we see in human physiology. Let's
first bust a myth: "California
is a progressive place that leads the
American nation in new ideas." Not
as regards natural medicine and natural
health they don't, not by a long shot. In
fact, the best place for natural health
and alternative medicine in the entire
country is just next door to that loony
bin in Arizona! California
is a repressive place for natural medicine,
which has consistently oppressed natural
care and penalized MD's who practice
alternative medicine. One of the
most blaring cases that come to mind
was that of well known Dr. Gary Gordon,
who had his license yanked by California
for performing IV Chelation therapy! He
was reducing the income of heart surgeons
who did not get to do bypasses on Dr.
Gordon's patients! In the past
2 decades the state has gotten rid of
Naturopathic licensure, closed a Naturopathic
College (Pacific), and put the screws
to physicians attempting to be more natural
and less invasive in their practice.

Protecting
the patient and consumer is what these
paternalistic elitists say they are doing. (These
students of Dialectical Materialism know
better than the great-unwashed masses). What
they are actually doing is much more
sinister and harmful to the population
they claim to be helping. Protecting
big business, likely while lining their
pockets, is what these neo-socialists
are doing while assuming the guise of
protecting the public from unscrupulous
health food fanatics! Quite
a position to take for a bunch of '60's
pro communist radicals from the old SDS
and the Black Panthers! Their
'60's platform was that big business
was evil and needed to be destroyed in
favor of production owned by ”the
people”. I guess since
they might now be getting “special
considerations” from the drug companies
they consider themselves (the people)
to own a stake in the companies.

Whatever
am I ranting about you ask? It's
this: Last year into this year
the drug firms that made synthetic progesterone
were rocked when studies showing that
their junk caused terrible side effects
including cancer! (We already knew
the synthetic progestine caused birth
defects). Now anyone familiar with
the patent process knows you can't patent
nature. And anyone knowledgeable
on how the drug company’s work
knows that they won't sell anything they
can't patent because they can't make
any money using nature when everyone
around is free to copy it. So,
when the drug companies make a hormone
they change its molecular structure just
a hair here and there so that the drug
has most of the properties of the hormone
but is not exactly like the natural hormone. That
way they can get a patent on their version
of the hormone and sell the heck out
of it while the competition needs to
tweak the molecular structure some other
way so they can get a patent on their
hormone drug. Follow me so far? Good.

Since
the side effects of the synthetic drug
progestine were SOOO BAD, there are a
bunch of product liability lawyers sharpening
their knives finding women who have been
harmed by the drugs and planning class
action suits against the drug makers
for the damage they inflicted. Since
the drug companies, who care about people
as much as the tobacco companies do,
know they are going to lose the lawsuits,
they want to minimize their losses by
saying that their drugs had the same
side effects as natural progesterone.
Why? Since they could not control the
side effects of the drugs they want to
make it look as though they are not that
liable or negligent by claiming natural
progesterone has the same side-effects. According
to them, what happened is just what happens
when you take progesterone in any form;
drug or natural.

IF the
side effects of their drugs are the same
as for the stuff from nature, then they
can't be responsible for what happened. If
on the other hand the side effects of
their drugs happened because of the changes
they made in the molecular structure
of the hormone, then they are responsible. Understand? It’s
a matter of blame and liability.

What’s
all this got to do with the Peoples Socialist
Republic of California? If a state
known for supposedly championing consumer
rights and environmentalism, declares
that all progesterone is carcinogenic
and requires a warning liable to be placed
on natural progesterone sold there, then
it bolsters the drug company’s
claim that they are not responsible for
the side effects of the progestine drugs. See
where this is going?

My question
is this: if the state health and environmental
authority is so hip on labeling progesterone
as a carcinogen, with no validation other
than the synthetic hormones being cancer
causing, why don't they require the same
label on known carcinogens like the natural
and synthetic estrogen found in HRT drugs? Not
only has the US government listed Estradiol
and Estrone as known carcinogens, but
doctors in Europe have stopped prescribing
it for the same reasons! Since
the release last spring of a comprehensive
review of all HRT studies done in the
last few decades from researchers at
the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm,
most of the physicians in the EU have
now stopped prescribing estradiol because
of it's cancerous and other nasty side
effects. Karolinska is the largest
teaching hospital in Europe and the home
of the Nobel Prize in Medicine. When
they speak most of the worlds’ doctors
listen. So again my question: why
haven't estrogen drugs, natural estrogen
and isoflavone supplements been singled
out for the carcinogenic label while
the most benign and beneficial sexual
hormone gets the moniker? The reason
is that the estrogen lawsuits haven't
started – yet. The lawyers
are further ahead on the progestine lawsuits
than they are with the HRT suits.

With
that off my chest let's look at the way
progesterone works in human physiology. While
on paper progesterone can convert into
estrogen and therefore become carcinogenic,
that conversion rarely if ever happens “In
Vivo”, in live human beings. If
it did:

Pregnant
women, whose progesterone levels are
486% higher than normal do not convert
P into E. If that were so the rate
of miscarriage would be sky high. Instead
high natural progesterone levels guard
against estrogen (which is one cause
of miscarriage) and preserve pregnancy
so well so that the British National
Health Service gives natural progesterone
cream to women who's estrogen levels
are too high and endangering their pregnancy. In
no instances have the addition of progesterone
elevated estrogen levels or caused miscarriage.

Pregnant women
have a very low overall cancer
rate, for all types of cancers
at only 6.5 per 100,000 women. This
is opposed to women in general
of the same age group with cancer
rates of: 111.2 per 100,000 for
breast cancer, 41.5 per 100,000
for lung cancer and 18.2 for colon
and rectal cancer (the three major
types of cancer that kill women). And,
it seems women are protected from
the disease during the entire period
of their pregnancies! While
as soon as the high progesterone
levels drop to practically zero
right after birth, just postpartum
women have a slightly higher rate
of acquiring breast cancer! Hum,
the progesterone is gone, the estrogen
is up and the cancer rate increases. That
says it all! (Also remember
that postpartum depression is the
result of the low or no progesterone
level had right after giving birth. Estrogen
is needed to stop the pregnancy
and spark the birth process and
high estrogen along with the milk
producing pro-lactin hormone is
responsible for a woman not being
able to get pregnant while she
is breast-feeding. (Estrogen
is a serious creator of depression
as is pro-lactin). Since
the major hormonal difference between
being pregnant and not is the super
elevated Progesterone level, it
has always been assumed that P
is protective against cancer. Admittedly,
it would be difficult for a gal
to achieve the same 486% elevation
using natural progesterone cream
unless gals bathed in the stuff!

In women who
have gotten pregnant right after
giving birth and in gals who have
done so repeatedly (2 to 3 pregnancies
in a row), and basically they have
been pregnant for 2 to 3 year straight
with the 486% higher progesterone
rate for prolonged period of time,
these gals do not develop cancers
from the dramatically long term
high progesterone level.

In fact,
when have most of us heard of a pregnant
woman getting cancer? In 20+ years
as a naturopath I haven't heard of a
single case!

Women using
natural progesterone, who take
hormone tests and have elevated
progesterone levels, still don't
show elevated estrogen levels. Understand
in theory, on paper, progesterone
is dangerous because it can convert
to estrogen. In humans we
see no such conversion, in fact
higher P levels lower E levels!

So who
would benefit from scaring women away
from progesterone use? It's
no doubt that the widespread use of natural
progesterone has severely cut into sales
of antidepressants and estrogen drugs
with peri and postmenopausal women.

Aside
from the drug companies and the situation
I mentioned before, do you remember the
tryptophan scare of the late 80's? A
tainted batch of food grade tryptophan
was dumped into the US market by a Japanese
pharmaceutical maker. Product liability
trials in US Federal courts have shown
that the Japanese tryptophan maker knew
the batch was tainted with over 25 different
bacterial contaminants!

Tryptophan
was used to combat depression, elevate
mood and promote sleep. Several
different nutritional product makers
bought the tryptophan from the Japanese
company and distributed their products
nation wide. The 25+ different
contaminants in the tainted batch created
hundreds of cases of various things from
muscle pain to severe body wide edema. Two
customers died. Individual states
and the FDA moved not just to remove
the tainted product from the market but
also to ban all food grade tryptophan
as a stand-alone product. Up to
that point tryptophan was the most widely
used anti depressant in America. Six
weeks after the ban was in place Eli
Lilly released Prozac. Coincidence? Not
friggin likely!

Would
the company that kept knowledge from
the FDA about the higher rates of suicide
and mania (uncontrolled violent behavior)
among teen Prozac users during clinical
trials in Europe, ever think of eliminating
the competition (tryptophan) with such
an underhanded and dangerous stunt? By
the way, if I as a lowly Naturopath knew
of the British suicide and mania test
results 10 years ago, why did the FDA
not know about those results until 2004? Also,
did you know that in every major case
of school violence since 1993 all of
the stabbers, shooters and would be bombers
were on antidepressant drugs or Ritalin
or BOTH! In the more than 80+ incidents
that fact remains a solid one. But
have you heard of that fact? No. You'll
hear the blame placed on video games,
or guns, anything but the mind-altering
drugs! That all those kids
were on antidepressant or other mind-bending
drugs is a fact the dope companies definitely
don't want you to know. Where are
the lawyers waiting to take on Eli Lilly
for that fact? Why is the
fat slob neo-communist propaganda movie
maker not filming a “documentary” about
kids crazed into violence by mind altering
prescription drugs?

We have
evidence of the drug company’s
tactics with Merck and their keeping
red rice yeast off the health food market
by continuous lawsuits and appeals against
a health food marketer. Red rice
yeast has statins, which lower cholesterol
naturally and with out side effect while
the synthetic statin drugs kill thousands. We
now have another example of how the drug
companies are interested in our welfare. Merck
and its cover up of the dangers of Vioxx
are now responsible for some 55,000 deaths
and some 139,000 heart attacks and strokes
in the US according to an FDA researcher! ARE
THE DRUG COMPANIES INTERESTED IN PROMOTIONG
HUMAN HEALTH AND WELLBEING as their warm
fuzzy TV ads constantly suggest? Or
have their actions spoken louder than
their ads. Scripture says: “By
their works ye shall know them”.

For the
state health and environmental group
and the legislature in California to
give cover to the drug companies shows
they are in too cozy with the dope peddlers. The
FDA is now going to come under congressional
investigation for “being cozy” with
the pharmaceutical firms. FDA officials
routinely get jobs, stock, or favors
from the multi national drug firms once
they leave FDA. Not an environmental
for fair and non-biased review of new
medications and their risks. Not
an environment that makes for transparent
regulation of the drug industry.

But what
of the bureaucrats and legislators who
are feeding from the drug corporation’s
troughs? As author George Orwell
wrote of the revolutionaries in his famous
work Animal Farm: the pigs, (socialists,
neo-communists and old leftists), are
looking more and more like the humans
(unscrupulous capitalist oppressors)
every day!

On the
question as to whether you as a woman
should use natural progesterone for all
of it's benefits, listen to that little
still voice inside your hearts and decide
for yourselves.

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